US Patent Issued to Arm on Nov. 18 for "Checkpoint-progress status" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,995, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Checkpoint-progress status" was invented by Fernando Garcia Redondo (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jonas Svedas (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Sahan Sajeewa Hiniduma Udugama Gamage (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising, in response to a power-drop warning, beginning a checkpointing process comprising storing, to a non-volatile memory, execution state associated with data processing operations performed by data processing circuitry. The method also comprises maintaining, in the non-volatile memory, a checkpoint-progress in...